1. |
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Drool Britannia, such a bloody disgrace,
Britons never admit to their mistakes
Stool Britannia, you’re so bloody two-faced,
Britons always have one foot in the grave
The protests didn’t lead to another spike
It’s you that misleads, so on your bike
I’ll do my best to not perverse this verse with curse
So don’t asperce me, but reserve your glee ‘cause
The curve is not flat……..yet
Don’t trust bureaucrats…..vet
All their bias facts…...net
Profits for the cats….. Bet
The Magician’s on vacation to an impoverished nation
To sell empty scrolls to a High Priestess that rolls
‘em Into doobies so the Empress gets groovy
While The Emperor licks the feet of the Pope whose downbeat
‘Bout his sacreligious jackanapes who became Lovers, sour grapes
They pull the chariot for a race, with no winner, what a waste
The proletariat lacks the Strength, to keep their distance at arm’s length
The Hermit doesn’t have this problem, they watch Wheel Of Fortune
They think, immobility, releases endorphins
But there’s no Justice for the Hanged Man when the autocracts have bought you
“Hey, DEATH, come on down!!
This year you’ve earned your thorny crown”
Bless the Temperance
That try to expose your impotence
Beg for change and the Devil thinks you serve him
The sniper range on Trump Tower is disturbing
You’d think by now the Stars knew they’re diverting
Attention from the Moon that’s converting
The light of the Sun into forgetfulness
For the Judgement found in Lockdown that kept you blessed
And now our prospect for the World is a filthy mess
For five minutes, we were making fleeting progress
But now we’re heading towards autocratic accords
With every scandal that brakes I get a little more bored
And that’s not healthy, if anything it’s cruel
But at least I can see the other 21 tarots are just fools
21 fools
21 fools in 21 costumes, 21 pilots killed for a statue
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2. |
Cheat Fate, Hug Your Mum
06:20
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There’s the stuff that you do physically, logically
Wearing your face mask, wash your hands, keep physical distance
Then there’s stuff that you do mentally, cathartically
Tan outside and bask, make up plans, justify your existence
Both are needed to survive
Can you really compromise
Dopamine for oxygen?
Though it means the shops again
Become over-crowded
With simpletons shrouded
From the horrors of having your lifespan made shorter
You know they never witnessed the biological torture
Of a respiratory shutdown, Covid don’t care for borders
Point of order; you can’t complain about disorder
When you loiter in the pub or on a beach with your daughter
Overcrowded with other mothers, like lambs to the slaughter
Goddamit Karen, get off the dam plague wagon!!
I know opinions are like assholes: everyone has one
But some are cancerous and therefore should be treated upon
Isn’t that what we’re supposed to do with a major problem?
Instead of acting like it isn’t there and playing possum?
A virus doesn’t need a brain to know nothing is gained
From pretending you’re defending your right to be “free”
So you claim you’re the victim of a conspiracy
To be controlled by the master of the economy
It’s easy to control, when you’re susceptible
To a source unresolved, not credible
Don’t get me wrong, many are gone who stood up to the system
But it weren’t for claiming facemasks are a facial prison
It’s not the facemask that depleting oxygen from your mind
Turns out you were just born deaf, dumb and blind
Deaf to the pleas of people who knew what they’re talking about
Dumb to the ease of lockdown bringing nothing but doubt
Blind to the reason they no longer care how they flout
They already won, they’ll survive the drought
You might not, so while you’re still healthy relatively
You might want, to do things that give you serenity
Like what? Oh I don’t know, spend time with those you love
Oh look here comes your mum, are the gloves coming of?
You gonna
Cheat fate, hug your mum? (x3)
Cheat fate, ‘cause you may never see her again (x2)
And hug your dad while you’re at it!
Might as well, don’t dwell
On the repercussions your actions may foretell
You excel
At rationalising like a gazelle
Getting ever so closer to where the crocodile dwell
Is your throat that parched?
To misquote Karl Marx
When the sufferers learn to think
The leaders of the world drink
So what’s it gonna be?
To be safe or happy?
How ‘bout both? possibly
If you were wired mentally
To be content with status quo
But can you repent where you go
When you wanna do something even though you know nothing
Will guarantee your immunity from a little bit of something
Or a whole lot of everything that’ll retcon your life?
Like, a smoker knowing next time they’ll be done forever
Like, a drunk skipping the doctor’s ‘cause they’re far too clever
Like, a cyclist in a rush who forgets their helmet
Like, a playboy without a condom getting way too tempted
Like anyone who has ignored
All of the risk for the reward
You only need to lose once
To be the one who confronts
Your mortality
It’s a formality
And your carte blanche will impart blunt obstruction to the fallacy
Of living on the edge when you don’t believe in the gravity
Of the situation all our nations hope to find a remedy, for
Score or so many years ago we had foot and mouth
And now it seems we can’t converse without putting the foot in our mouth
And now you focus on the fact that I rhymed mouth with mouth
Must you espouse clout of doubt, proud of the soundbites that you shout?
Collectively reflecting the responsibility
For the discrepancy, we clearly see the corruptibility
Of our mental well-being
It’s a gentle hell dreaming
About a time when societal collapse seemed freeing
Now our liberty is fleeting
As they continue mistreating
This pandemic as polemic for the esoteric seeking
Some kind of solace
From continuous contradictions
What they have sold us
Is perfect for the inquisitions
For when this is all over there might be nothing left
Do you feel like doing something that’ll make you less stressed?
You gonna cheat fate, hug your mum, hug your dad (x4)
‘Cause you may never see them again
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3. |
Negative Outlook
04:20
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Dear Diary
I got my antibody test today
Was negative for having the virus, hooray
All the fear of infecting my fellow resident
Squashed by the knowledge, so now I feel excellent
I might celebrate tonight, lick a few windows
I might get in a fight, take a couple of blows
To the face, take that as you will
I’m happy and horny and I got alot of time to kill (YAAAAY)!
I’m gonna hug my mum, but first I gotta deflate my boner (DUDE WHAT THE FUCK?!)
No longer confined to being the responsible loner, I felt like poser
Pretending I prepared for this all my years
When really I was sca red that the fog never clears
Thankfully I am spared from being in arrears
With fairweather friends of the year
Having a shred of clarity reverses polarity
From insularity to solidarity
Retain’s normality, retrain’s your sanity
Look there, can you see? The edge of the galaxy
At some point it ends, along with everything else
And that’s good,
that’s what we want
Don’t wanna be the one gathering dust on the shelf
So you should
Love your confidant
For those who might live forever, they mean nothing at all
So I’m happy now
At some point I won’t be, I don’t know how
But there’s no use in crying
We always planned on dying
JUST NOT TODAY
I got a negative outlook (YAAAAAAAY)
I’M HAPPY TODAY
I got a negative outlook (YAAAAAAAY)
JUST FINE TODAY
I got a negative outlook (YAAAAAAAY)
I’M HAPPY TODAY
I got a negative outlook (YAAAAAAAY)
So I posted a picture on Instagram
Expecting to have an instant jam
Of assholes claiming that it’s a scam
And I was prepared to not give a dam
But my mate Lee saw it
He’s the bass player of the band For The Hornets
He drove 20 miles to the same pharmacy
That I had been so he could then finally see
Whether he wasn’t as lucky as me
The chemist only did as a formality
For he hadn’t shown any symptoms throughout the timeline
Of when Covid-19 cases started to climb
They said “you wanna waste 30 quid? Then that’s your choice
Any notion he might have it was not voiced
And so they did the test…..
….And what do you know?! He actually had it!!
But that is not the weird part of the story
That part was something we could not foresee
For you see the most likely time Lee got the virus is something to fear
On all accounts….
Lee got the virus SEPTEMBER LAST YEAR!!!
WHAT?!?
Yeah I know, it all seems weird
‘And it seemed to confirm what we feared
There’s still a long way to go
Before we’ll finally know
SO KEEP AN OPEN MIND
And a negative outlook (YAAAAAY!)
LOOK WHAT YOU FIND
With a negative outlook (YAAAAAY!)
YOU FEEL MORE REFINED
With a negative outlook (YAAAAAAY!)
BUT YOU’RE JUST AS BLIND
With a negative outlook (YAAAAAAY!)
You see Lee last year was quarantined
For an unknown reason, All that was gleamed
Was a long list of symptoms with no cause
So they had to keep him behind lock doors
No matters how many tests were run
The diagnosis was left undone
But those symptoms now look familiar
Dry cough? Chest Pains? How peculiar
Loss of appetite? You know that just might
Infection of the lower respiratory tract?
Yeah this motherfucker had it……
I mean if it isn’t covid, then what’s the alternative fact?! anyway….
Luckily for Lee he got better
What a proper mystery to think weather
What he got might have been the thing that two months later
Was “discovered” in China, that does seem major
Considering the way we understand how we got here
This vignette doesn’t make things anymore clear
Before Lee got sickly, he was in Brussels
Nowhere near China
So then we can agree, this bursts our bubble
What a real headliner
Well I mean it could be
If we can verify, only then we should see
What’s really going on?
What’s wrong with the long con they played all along
But until then, we still know nothing
And we know you’re really just bluffing
So there’s nothing else to tell
The snake oil won’t sell
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Is it Birth Of The Will, or Triumph Of A Nation? (x4)
Oh wait it’s Triumph Of The Will, and Birth Of A Nation
Either way it’s cinematic nationalistic socialist masturbation
‘Cause The American Sniper, is an American Psycho
And The American Dream was written by A European Gigolo
If you had a ten dollar bill in your pocket you’d see Hamilton was white
But with Disney + in a cashless society, reality is trite
You would have learnt that in school
if there wasn’t a shoot-out every fucking week
Must be hard to stay cool
When you wash your best friend’s blood off your tear-stained cheek?
At least childhood obesity is no longer an issue,
‘cause all the children are dead
They’re either not vaccinated or they’re assassinated
by a gun their classmate found in their shed
I guess child-sized coffins are cheaper
Than medical bills for autistic care
Do you not think a child’s funeral is bleaker
Than a kid daydreaming with a vacant stare?
Oh it’s just how it is?
In the land of the free and the home of the brave
You’ll be damned to foresee so atone in your grave
As they plan to decree you’re alone so behave
What a feast for the pigs!
There’s a little Mark Fuhrman in all of you
You conceal the dark vermin kept out of view
That knelt on George Floyd’s windpipe, wait, George who?
Remember him?
Remember Breonna Taylor?
How the system failed her?
Remember Trayvon MartIn?
George Zimmerman does, he sold the gun he shot him with for 250 grand
If that doesn’t make you sick to your stomach,
then where the fuck do you stand?
Well?!
I hope you decided before the past election
And don’t bitch and moan about supposed oppression
Better to concede than to falsely bleed
Between a crematorium and anal beads
Speaking of which, a moment of silence for Kanye 2020
A ballot spoiled by a typically delayed entry. Yes
Were you really gonna give your vote to Uncle Yeezus?
If Trump’s the emperor, then he’s General Grievous
He ain’t even Darth Vader, no one expected him to destroy the sith
He claimed slavery was a choice, that’s who you’re dealing with
A glorified jester looking to doing nothing but fester
A pathetic obstruction, to the standard deviation
Of broken promises from both sides of Harvey Dent’s coin
They make their own luck, for the sake of their saggy loins
On the left, a baby-boomer cuck, on the right, a rapist
allegedly, they insist,
aren’t you pissed?
I guess not
So when your child is raped next on Jeffery’s island
I’m gonna laugh at you as you condone the violence
And wonder if you know how much is your silence?
At least you food never rots
It’s just stays in a state of ouroboros decay
Like your mildly indifferent state of dismay
As the numbers rise to the point of disarray
And that’s only confirmed cases
Nothing to be said for all the others facing
The price-tag fitted onto each test
A nice gag for those who voted for that pest
That false flag flying feels even more dirty
Yet you still pardon the turkey
And I bet you getting pissed off at being lectured by me?
A spastic limey?
Yeah we’re just as grimy
And I know deep down it’s very unlikely
That any of this will change, despite the
Efforts of those to simply impose
A faux monarchy to grow sovereignty
Right under your nose, you think you are close
To achieving a stance where you can advance the search for The American Dream?
“You wanna know what happened to the American Dream?”
The Comedian proudly screams
as the fires start getting mean
“You wanna know what happened?”
“well….”
“It came true!! You’re looking at it!”
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It’s been 1000 years since we had human rights?
Yeah that’s right, Man that’s tight
King Knut had acute foresight
When he listened to the people of Littleport’s plight
Back in 1020
And delivered a binding proclamation
That Kings fall under subjugation
From anyone within the population
That finds fault with the ruler’s lesligation
And not be forced to join in the acclamation
Of a fool who feeds off the inclination
From state-mandated salutations
It might began a slow-rising propagation
But it’s still being realised with hesitation
We still got the wage gap and segregation
Hidden under our noses, it’s a combination
Of not wanting to look and our education
Being written by the winners of the decimation
Of a new way of thinking, the sanitation
Of ideals marketed by corporations
To sell chlorinated chicken to a broken nation
It doesn’t factor in our verified defamation
Against genocidal gentrification
Every day another way to make you pay for your say
Based on something you can’t control
Physically, mentally, they tell you to be yourself
As long as what you are is them, you can climb out the hole
How can we stomach this injustice
that still persists, that they dismiss?
How long can the leader’s of the world remiss?
If you couldn’t follow all that, then remember this, that
ALL PEOPLE ARE CREATED EQUAL
Enough chit-chatter, black lives matter
And if that offends you, then go ahead, scatter
ALL PEOPLE ARE CREATED EQUAL
LGBTQIA +, You accept all of them or bust
ALL PEOPLE ARE CREATED EQUAL
Immigrants are not your scapegoat for the government manspreading in every lifeboat
ALL PEOPLE ARE CREATED EQUAL
From the riff-raff all the way to the regal
So when they start to make ideas illegal
And you finally realise their thoughts are lethal
You’re not allowed to say it feels medieval
‘Cause they knew nothing more than their bias evil
And you got the resource to fix the discourse
Before they enforce nationalist remorse
For how things never used to be
Is this the real life? No! It’s just fantasy
Their singular opinion hurts the wind the white flag flies
They’re a sociopathic nostalgia-addict, counting matriculated magpies
One for privilege, two for the cis
They never looked in the mirror and asked “who is this?”
Three for the feeling that you belong
They never looked at you and told you “you’re wrong”
Four for the heritage they exert
Five for the sympathy you desert
Six for the knowing that you’ll be fine
Seven for the blessing that they decline
Eight for the hate that they instigate
When you hesitate to dissipate
Nine for the circles of Hell they left
For the people you care to leave bereft
Ten for the waves they can’t command
The tide’s coming in to claim the sand
And time’s rushing in to make a stand
The point of no return is out of hand
No King or queen or in between can take charge of nature
And it’s not like that they didn’t try to make us all hate ya
But there’s no life left in this Earth for their way of thinking
It’s time to take things all the way back to the beginning
And say
ALL PEOPLE ARE CREATED EQUAL
When was giving peace a chance seen as nothing more than a summer romance?
ALL PEOPLE ARE CREATED EQUAL
Can you really claim independence when you ride the wave of circumstance?
ALL PEOPLE ARE CREATED EQUAL
Is it fair to say you don’t care to pay for the leverage your privilege gives you today?
ALL PEOPLE ARE CREATED EQUAL
Have you had enough of the questioning? Well you’re sequestering, so let this sink in
Who is the master of your fate?
Who is the captain of your soul?
Do you think that Britain is still great?
Is this how you wanna take back control? (x2)
It’s been a thousand years since we had human rights?
Yeah that’s right. Man that’s tight
But can we pinpoint the progress that we’ve made to see the dawn
Through the darkest night?
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The Vocal Minority! WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
VS
The Silent Minority! Yes.
All right, Vocal Minority, you have the floor! Let’s go!
Yo we’re the vocal minority, the local authority
On how to win against the global sorority
That force us to submit to satanic censorship
So we can’t commit to fighting dictatorships
When you stay silent, you are complicit
To the shameless violence, they will exhibit
At least we’re trying to make a difference
While you’re relying on compliant pretence
All right, coming in strong there, silent majority, what’s the response?
Yeah we’re the silent majority full of vibrant diversity
And despite what you think, we’re not your adversary
You’re always look for a battle that you can’t finish
The candle burnt too bright, and it’ll soon diminish
You got alot of big thoughts but no follow through
The devil’s in the details, but that’s too smart for you
You’re like a tree without wood, all bark and no bite
You always could would and should, You never left, you’re never right
And they throw it back at ya, Vocal Minority, Go!
Oh that’s pretty rich, saying that while you stand-by
And watch them all pitch who among us fools can die
For the greater good, that we don’t get a say in
But they’ll be sure to leave us with the bill we’re paying
With the rest of our lives, while their sex cult thrives
Just because you’re alive doesn’t mean you survive
If you lose everything that was worth fighting for
How does it feel to be their little silent whore?!
Well silent majority, how does it feel?
Well if you’d shut the fuck up for one solitrary second
You’d release the damage your brash commentary beckons
Every minute little moment doesn’t need aggravation
As the result of your premature ejaculation
Always shooting your load before the main course
Your impact erodes the sands of time into quartz
Intrinsically worthless to anyone with sense
To not buy into your delusions and hold onto their cents
All right all right all right, that was some fight
And the winner is........
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Friends and well-wishers tend to sell glitter
If you talk too much about what makes you shiver
I’m out of viagra, I can’t stand and deliver
At least I’m drinking less, I feel blessed by my liver
When it’s Winter I can make my brain numb
It can’t make me think this if it yearns for the sun
The plan’s fake and I miss when I earned what I done
All I do is wait for these things to become
The past
Thank fuck nothing lasts
Soon this’ll be a flash before my eyes in the moment that I pass
When the dye is cast
Over my soiled life make sure that the patterns match the draft
I’ll say it’s part of my craft
To make sense out of nothing and leave you all slightly abashed
My mind is trashed
Do I have to be here much longer?
I don’t feel stronger, just feel like I’ve wronged her
Convinced her to trust me, thinking I could conquer
Every little thing that keeps her up at night
But it’s a fickle fling with success and it’s slight
I might do enough to make it feel less rough
But it won’t be enough to sustain my grand bluff
So don’t threat the small stuff ‘cause soon it’ll be done
So just let the time run until this is all in
The past
Thank fuck nothing lasts
Soon this’ll be a flash before my eyes in the moment that I pass
When the dye is cast
Over my soiled life make sure that the patterns match the draft
They’ll say it’s part of my craft
To make sense out of nothing and leave you all slightly abashed
My mind is trashed
I shouldn’t feed my own plight
But It’s a fickle fling with success and it’s slight
The wax is trickling, the candle burnt too bright
This is Not An Exit
This is Not Not An Exit
This just gives me, a good excuse to exist
I’m just stating my case to save face, I embrace
What light yonder breaks, you might wanna take
A moment to try and see your future
For a while now mine felt like a rumour
And I hate it
All this fake shit
I try to give myself a blanket statement
That soon I’ll know which way my fate went
Who is ahead of us?
They seem too generous
If I had the power of hindsight I wouldn’t bet on us
But I know nothing so I shouldn't be too venomous
I can’t wait to remember this time I wish I was dead
And I can put all these bad dreams to bed
I’m too old to be this misanthropic
I’m too young to not get what’s ironic
If I’m honest all the fondest memories have never been
The ones I recall in the detail, looks like I’ll never win
But maybe I don’t need to win
Maybe I don’t need to win
Thank fuck nothing lasts
I can carry on existing and leave all of my fear in the past
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8. |
Lock Down The Vibe
03:00
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Combine a mega recession
With the seasonal depression
And you find yourself messing
With feelings you’re too weak to ignore
Like what the future might have in store
And whether you want to see it or….
Gotta plan something grand
To justify the reason why
You get to wake up late
Forget you hate to fake
The eternity internally
Justifying the thought process
Deaf-defying in its success
Or maybe to exist
Is enough, I insist
To carry on the happy song
Even if no one's hearing
Feelings drift with the evening
Hope is swift and redeeming
We want to shift from the grieving
To finally believing
In something, anything
Quit hunting, for our sins
We make mistakes we took for granted
Regale our failures, keep it candid
And are willing to find peace
Though the villains never cease
To try and make us declare glory
So they’re the hero in their story
If I was me then I would be
Thinking superficially
Clinging to descendancy
But now I am me so I gotta be
Someone more than the sum of my parts
Keeping the heart to heart
I am complete, I am done with this farce
And that’s the dance we perform
That’s enhanced by the norm
Becoming undefined
Our fear’s are undermined
And here’s the chance to reform
Intertwined by the decline of clear
Presets, hedge bets on how we’re gonna be fined
Until then
You have to figure out what this time we’re living through is for
‘Cause half the sinners doubt it’s fine to just settle the score
The other half face the draft of unrequited guilt
This great wall they built
Covered in soiled silk
Has its foundations cracked
By impatience stacked
Against the projections we have entrusted our lives to
Their reflections maladjusted to what we’ve been through
It’s all quiet now
On the Western Front
As Europe & The Americas
Try to bribe the editors
To calm the riots down
By claiming they will confront
The nicest of the predators
For the sake of the secular
You better hold them to that
Don’t let the cowards back-track
Our history is currency
To keep our freedom intact
What little there is of it
It’s worth holding onto
Don’t forget what you learned
During the time we discerned
You gotta Lock Down The Vibe
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9. |
Someday Sooner
03:00
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Someday, sooner, than you, think this, will all, seem like, a bad dream
It all feels so never-ending
You feel there’s no use defending
For the concept of hope
It’s morphine for dopes
Who forget they’re just pretending
Things feeling foggy, you hate everybody
And everybody doesn’t care
Someday you might stop descending
And you’ll realise it there
Someday, sooner, than you, think this, will all, seem like, a bad dream
You think you’re the only one crying
Over problems not worth simplifying
Well maybe you are
If you think we’re sub-par
In you solipsistic rectifying
But if only your mind, is the one that’s behind
This painful existence we thrifted
Then maybe you can stop denying
All of this joy you’ve been gifted
Someday, sooner, than you, this this, will all, seem like, a bad dream
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